Combined collar button and necktie-guiding device



A. M. GOLDSTEIN COMBINED QOLLAR BUTTON AND NECKTIE GUIDIIiG DEVICE Sept, 1111, 1923.

Filed Dec. 11. 1922 Patented Sept. ill, 1923.

UNETEE STATES ALBION IVI. GOLDSTEIN, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSDURI.

COMBINED COLLAR BUTTON AND NECKTIE-GUIDING DEVICE.

Application filed-December 11, 1922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, AnnIoN M. G'OLDSTEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combined Collar Buttons and Necktie-Guiding Devices, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the .accompanying drawing, forming a part thereof.

This invention relates to a certain new and useful improvement in combined collarbuttons and necktie guiding-devices and has for its principal object the provision of a relatively simple, inexpensive device which may be easily removably attached to and upon the collar and which in use is adapted efliciently for detachably securing the col lar to the neckband of a shirt and at the same time supporting and guiding the neck tie at the back of the collar so as to eliminate any tendency of the tie to bind while being pulled lengthwise through the collar when the necktie is being adjusted.

l/Vith the above and other objects in view, my present invention resides in the novel features of form, construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and afterwards pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawing,

Figure l is an elevational view of a stand ard form of collar equipped with a combined collar-button and necktie guiding-de-. vice embodying my invention;

Figure 2 is a fragmental perspective view, taken as on the line 2-2, Figure 1, showing the device as in use in connection with a shirt and collar; and

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a combined collar-button and necktie guidingdevice of my invention.

Referring now more in detail and by ref erence characters to the said drawing, which illustrates a preferred embodiment of my invention, the device as a whole is constructed from a single piece of suitable bendable sheet metal of suitable length and preferably of uniform width throughout its length, and the metal having also a certain amount of resiliency.

In the construction or development of the device, the strip is bent at a point intermediate its ends to form a flattened loop 1, which performs the function of the head of the collar-button, and extending at right Serial No. 608,165.

a relatively greater distance, as at 4, andthen again bent to extend downwardly, as at 5, thereby forming a so-called inverted substantially U-shaped loop 6 open at its upper end and having its bight presented upwardly and a second oppositely disposed substantially U-shaped loop 7 open at its lower end and having its bight presented downwardly. The leg-portion 4 is thus common to both the loops 6 and 7 the former of which is what I designate 'as the collar-engaging loop of the device, the legs- 3 and 4; of loop 6 being disposed more or' less closely together in yielding relation.

The latter loop 7 is adapted to fit in the fold of the collar and to receive and serve as a slip-guide for the tie when the latter is also positioned within the collar-fold.

From the rear end of upper shank-member 2, the end portion of the strip is laterally extended upwardly, as at 8, to form substantially a button-hole engaging prolongation of leg-portion 3 of the loop 6.

It will be understood that my present device is particularly designed for use in connection with the now generally worn socalled turn-over collars, and when the device is applied for use, the device is removably engaged at its loop 6 with the inner bandportion 9 of the collar, as best seen in F igure 2, and leg-extension 8 inserted endwise through the buttonhole of the collar to project within the collar-fold 10. As so disposed upon the collar, the device as a whole is frictionally held from removal by means of the gripping-engagement between the yielding legs 8 and 4 of loop 6 and the collar-band 9, the extension or tongue 8 in its engagement with the button-hole of the collar retaining the device in proper upright position and preventing sidewise tilting or shifting thereof. As so attached and positioned upon the collar, the head 1 is presented inwardly for convenient engagement as is usual with the collar-band of a shirt,

be easily and cheaply produced, andis very efficient and effective in performing its intended functions. It will be understood, of course, that various modifications in the size, form, and construction of the several parts of the device may be resorted to without departing from the nature and spirit of my invention.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A combined collar-button and necktie guiding-device including a shirt-engaging head, a shank, an attaching-loop for fric tionally gripping the collar, and asecond loop for slip-guiding a tie in the fold of the collar.

2. A combined collar-button and necktie guiding-device including a shirt-engaging head, a shank, an attaching loop for frictionally engaging the collar, and a second 100p for slip-guiding a tie in the fold of the collar, said loops having a common legmember and belng opposltely disposed the 7 one to the other.

' 3.'A combined collarbutton and necktie guiding-device including a shirt-engaging head, a shank,an attaching loop for engaging the collar, and a second loop for slipguiding a tie in the fold of the collar, said loops having a common leg-member and being oppositely disposed the one to the other and the legs of the attaching loop being relatively yielding for frictionally gripping the collar.

4. A combined collar-button and necktie guiding-device including a shirt-engaging head, a shank, an attaching loop for engaging the collar, a second loop for slip-guiding a tie in the fold of the collar, said loops having a common leg-member and being oppositely disposed the one to the other and the legs of the attaching loop being relatively yielding for frictionally gripping the collar, and a lateral extension upon the shank for engagement with the button-hole of the collar for preventing sidewise shifting of the device.

5. A combined collar-button and necktieguiding device constructed from a single strip of metal bent to include a shirt-engaging head, a shank extending laterally from the head, a U-shaped attaching loop having its bight presented upwardly relatively to the shank, a U-shaped tie-guiding loop having its bight presented downwardly relatively to the shank, said. loops having a common leg-member and the legs of the attaching loop being relatively yielding for frictionally gripping the collar, and a'lateral extension upon the shank for engagement with the button hole of the collar for preventing side-wise shifting of the device.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification.

ALBION M. GOLDSTEIN. 

